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The Chicago Transit Authority, created by state legislation, began operation in 1947 after acquiring independent transit companies. It is governed by a seven-member board appointed by the mayor and the governor and is overseen by the Regional Transportation Authority. Serving the city and 35 suburbs, the agency has an average weekday ridership of about 1.7 million. The CTA has almost 1,900 buses on 127 routes. Nearly 1,400 rail cars operate on eight routes, including service to O’Hare International Airport and Midway Airport. The agency in 2014 completed a transition to Ventra, a contactless fare-payment system.

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Ice and snow glazed tracks and stopped trains on the CTA's Green, Pink and Yellow lines Tuesday morning, causing major delays through the morning rush, agency officials said.
Full service was restored on all three lines by about 11 a.m., the CTA said.
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Evanston officials are already talking about assembling a large group to greet a Chicago Transit Authority train when the agency kicks off a six-week pilot program June 1, testing interest in an additional evening round-trip Purple Line Express train...

A long-awaited project designed to more than double the 3-mph average speed of CTA buses traveling across the middle of downtown will be called Loop Link, and construction of bus-only lanes and rapid transit-style boarding stations is set to begin in...

Morning commutes toward the Loop will soon take a few minutes longer for some riders on the CTA Red and Purple/Evanston Express rail lines while a section of track is rebuilt over the next year, CTA officials were to announce Thursday.
Starting March 9...

Chicago Transit Authority's famous "L" system has been connecting neighborhoods and providing transit for more than 10 billion people since going live in 1892. Learn more about this iconic, working antique when author Greg Borzo presents...

CTA officials are reporting major delays on the Orange Line early Friday morning.
Loop-bound Orange Line trains were operating with delays after a mechanical problem halted trains at the Pulaski station, according to a service alert.
The problem was...

Six people were taken to area hospitals with injuries after an SUV ran into the back of a CTA bus on the West Side about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, according to authorities.
The northbound 52 Kedzie / California bus was stopped on Kedzie Avenue at the...

Four of 11 Chicago and Cook County employee pension funds have signed on to a plan pushed by City Treasurer Kurt Summers to jointly bargain money manager fees.
Summers cites an example, first reported in Crain's, where an investment company owned by a...

Mayoral candidates were out Monday in 11th-hour bids to win over voters before Election Day.
Chicago voters can cast in-person absentee ballots downtown Monday before conventional voting takes place Tuesday around the city in an election headlined by...

To dog lover Rena Church, the numbers don't add up.
The Aurora woman has gathered 4,500 signatures on a petition requesting a new policy to allow small pets on trains.
The Metra board, on the other hand, got a measly 30-40 emails from folks...

A good city is like a good omelet. While the fillings matter, what really counts are the eggs that hold everything together.
I kept thinking of omelets last week as I walked the dull, nearly empty sidewalks around McCormick Place, the nation's largest...

A roughly 2 1/2-mile gap in CTA rail service that lasted 38 years on the Near South Side was eliminated Sunday, when Green Line trains started making stops at a station on Cermak Road near State Street.
The new $50 million Cermak-McCormick Place...

Providing new cellphone accommodations for CTA subway passengers is going to be like Christmas every day for the thieves who prey on electronic users. Nothing has been said about added security.
— Darwin Spurling, Chicago

The CTA, Metra and Pace would lose almost $130 million in state funding under the 2016 budget plan that Gov. Bruce Rauner presented Wednesday, potentially threatening transit services provided to disabled riders and opening the door to deep service cuts...

A skeptical crowd of Oak Park residents and village officials expressed concerns about the Eisenhower Expressway's possible expansion during a public meeting Monday with representatives from the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Chicago...

A nagging switching problems led to major delays on CTA train lines through the Loop during the morning rush Monday.
Service was nearly back to normal by noon, with only minor delays reported on the Brown Line, according to the CTA.
The height of the...

Chicago's three transit agencies have fallen $3 billion further behind previous years in investing in new equipment and maintaining existing trains, buses and infrastructure, a new report by the Regional Transportation Authority said Thursday.
The report...

A 12-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was hit by a CTA bus Wednesday evening in the Gresham neighborhood on the city's South Side.
About 7:25 p.m., the boy was in the 1400 block of West 79th Street walking a dog. At some point the dog...

At 5:02 a.m. on this date, it began to snow. Nothing remarkable about that. It was January in Chicago, and, besides, 4 inches of snow had been predicted. But it kept snowing, all through this miserable Thursday and into early Friday morning, until it...